Improvement in carriage-wheels



D. P. DAVIS.

Valocipede Wheel.

Nd- 93,067. Patented July 27, 1869.

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Letters Patent No. 93,067, dated July 27,1869.

rmrnovnmnur m CARRIAGE-WHEELS.

The Schedule referred to in-these Letters Patent and making part 01 the lame.

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' Be it known that I, D. P. DAVIS, of the city and State of New York,'haveinvented and made a certain new and useful Improvement in Wheels for Velocipedes; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the said invention, reference being bad to the annexed drawing, makingpart of this specification, wherein-'- Figure 1 is a vertical section of said wheel, and

Figure-2 is a plan of the same.'.

Similar marks of reference denote the same parts.

The velocipedes that have heretofore been made, have had two, three, or more wheels of ordinary construction. In the two-wheeled velocipedes, there is difliculty in an inexperienced person balancing himself, because the two wheels are in the same plane. With velocipedes having three or more wheels, there is an increaseof friction, and of difliculty in steering the apparatus. 7 My invention consists in a wheel adapted to twowheeled velocipedes, whereby the same will befi'endered more steady, and the friction will not be increased, said wheel being formed with two rims or tires, with an open space between them, and connected, by spokes, with one hub.

By this construetion,there.will be a sufiicieut width of tread to the wheel to cause the velocipede to'run much more firmly than heretofore, and parties can 1earn.to balance themselves, and ride said veloeipedes much more rapidly.

In the 'drawingit represents the hub, 12 b, the spokes, c and d, the rims or tires of the wheel, leaving a space between them, of a width sufiiicient to cause the velocipede to travel steadily; and this space will depend upon the diameter of the wheel, or the height of the seat from the ground.

The spokes 1) b are represented as formed with a fork at the outer end, to reach to the respective rims c and d, in order that single spokes may be employed, extending out from the hub, in the usual manner, and then reaching the respective rims by means of said forked end branching out, as represented.

hat I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- The spokes'b b, formed with forked ends, in combination with the-two rims, connected with, and sustained, at the desired distance apart, by said forked spokes, as specified.

ture, this 25th day of January, 1869.

D. R; DAVIS.

Witnesses:

- OHAs. E. SMITH,

GEO. T. PmeKNEY.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my signa- 

